14-letter words containing t, e, n, b, d
- nonpredictable — Not predictable.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- obedient plant — false dragonhead.
- on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
- penalty double — business double.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
- rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
- redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
- saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident